Mahabharata

Discontent is the root of fortune.

— Mahabharata

When the Gods deal defeat to a person, they first take his mind away, so that he sees things wrongly.

— Mahabharata

With gentleness one defeats the gentle as well as the hard; there is nothing impossible to the gentle; therefore the gentle is the more severe.

— Mahabharata

A gray head does not make an elder. The Gods know him to be an elder who knows, be he a child. Not by years, not by gray hairs, not by riches or many relations did the seers make the Law: "He is great to us who has learning."

— Mahabharata

Be he ever so wise and strong, wealth confounds a man. In my view, anyone living in comfort fails to reason.

— Mahabharata

The poor always eat better: hunger sweetens their dishes, and that is rare among the rich. It is generally found in the world that the rich have no appetite, but the poor, O Indra of kings, digest even wood.

— Mahabharata

The intoxication with power is worse than drunkenness with liquor and such, for he who is drunk with power does not come to his senses before he falls.

— Mahabharata

People are plagued by their senses if they act without restraint to attain their desires. ... If one is dragged along as the victim of his natural five senses, his adversities wax like the moon in the bright fortnight.

— Mahabharata

A chariot, king, is a person's body:Who is skilled rides happily, if they are trained.

— Mahabharata

Senses out of control suffice to bring one to grief, as untrained and disobedient horses bring a driver to grief on the road. A fool who, guided by his senses, sees profit arising from the unprofitable and the unprofitable from profit mistakes misery for happiness.

— Mahabharata

Do not do to another what is disagreeable to yourself: this is the summary Law.

— Mahabharata

Once war has been undertaken, no peace is made by pretending there is no war.

— Mahabharata